Okay, just rethinking, restarting, getting going again :-)
I spent a few minutes this afternoon trying to work on the data from the Memrise pilot study. After looking at the numbers and playing around with a little bit, what I can see is unless I'm doing something completely wrong, which I could check and probably should, it looks like the differences aren't statistically significant between the control group and experimental group. So when thinking about reformulating is the three hypotheses:
I spent a few minutes this afternoon trying to work on the data from the Memrise pilot study. After looking at the numbers and playing around with a little bit, what I can see is unless I'm doing something completely wrong, which I could check and probably should, it looks like the differences aren't statistically significant between the control group and experimental group. So when thinking about reformulating is the three hypotheses:
- Hypothesis 1: A class that uses memrise as a vocabulary acquisition tool, will show improvement in their vocabulary knowledge.
- Hypothesis 2: A class that uses memrise will improve more than a class that is left to their own devices.
- Hypothesis 3: Students that use memorized on a regular basis will improve to a greater extent than those who do not use that tool.
- Hypothesis 4: Students that use the memorized tools extensively will improve more than those who indicate substantial effort in traditional methods
- Hypothesis 1: Yes, statistically significant improvement
- Hypothesis 2: no statistical significance, although greater improvement in the raw numbers
- Hypothesis 3: need to figure out how to analyze that [although step one is to decide how to differentiate the groups – I was thinking three. And then what statistical analysis would be used to see if there are differences between – I was thinking ANOVA]
- Hypothesis four: need to figure out how to analyze that, but steps in the process are same as above.
